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AEJ Best Paper Awards

 

Annually, an article is selected from each òòò½Íø Journal from nominated articles for the AEJ Best Paper Award. The deadline for nominations was February 15. Winners are announced in April.

2025

Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work
Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, October 2024

Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance
Katherine R. H. Wagner
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, August 2022

Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Thomas Drechsel
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2023

Competition in Pricing Algorithms
Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2023

2024

Manasi Deshpande (L) and Yalun Su (R) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Tal Gross) 
 
Giovanni Ricco receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Silvia Miranda-Agrippino)   
Simon Board (L) and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards

 


Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 13, No. 2, April 2021


Barbara Biasi
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021


Silvia Miranda-Agrippino and Giovanni Ricco
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021


Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 14, No. 2, May 2022

2023

 
Enghin Atalay (L) and Daniel Tannenbaum (center) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Phai Phongthiengtham and Sebastian Sotelo)   Oyebola Okunogbe receiving AEJ:Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Victor Pouliquen)
 
Christopher Conlon (center) and Michael Sinkinson (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Matthew Backus)   
Morten Olsen receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: David Hémous)


The Evolution of Work in the United States
Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020

Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing
Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, No. 1, February 2022

The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality
David Hémous and Morten Olsen
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 14, No. 1, January 2022

Common Ownership in America: 1980 – 2017
Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson. 
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021

2022

Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
Rachael Meager
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 11, No. 1, January 2019

Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study
Julius J. Andersson
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 11, No. 4, November 2019

Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs
Bettina Brüggemann
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021

Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
Ginger Zhe Jin
Michael Luca
Daniel Martin
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 2, May 2021

2021


Ruben Enikolopov
Maria Petrova
Konstantin Sonin
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 10, No. 1, January 2018


Martin Watzinger
Thomas A. Fackler
Markus Nagler
Monika Schnitzer
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 12, No. 4, November 2020


Marek Jarociński
Peter Karadi
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020


Fernando Luco
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 11, No. 2, May 2019

2020

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
Henrik Klevin
Camille Landais
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
AEJ: Applied Economics, 11 (4)

Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
Manasi Deshpande
Yue Li
AEJ: Economic Policy, 11 (4)

A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation
Gauti Eggertsson
Neil R. Mehrotra
Jacob Robbins
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 11 (1)

Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions
Rahul Deb
Mallesh Pai
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (1)

2019

Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Danielle Li
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (2)

Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick
AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (3)

The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 10 (3)

A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
Yinghua He, Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia, and Jianye Yan
AEJ: Microeconomics, 10 (3)

2019 AEJ Best Paper Winners
(L to R) Janet Yellen and 2019 recipients Danielle Li, Kyle Emerick (co-author Marshall Burke not present), Markus Poschke, Yinghua He and Jianye Yan (co-authors Antonio Miralles and Marek Pycia not present)

2018

The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action
Conrad Miller
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (3)

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health
Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller and David Simon
AEJ: Economic Policy, 7 (1)

Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 9 (4)

Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (3)


Barbara Petrongolo (L) and L. Rachel Ngai (center) receiving AEJ:Macro Best Paper Awards

David Simon and Hilary Hoynes receiving AEJ:Policy Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Doug Miller)

Conrad Miller receiving AEJ:Applied Best Paper Award

Alessandro Lizzeri receiving AEJ:Micro Best Paper Award (not pictured: Leeat Yariv)

2017


  • Ruben Durante and Stefano DellaVigna, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara)

    Philippe Aghion and Julian Kolev, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Fiona Murray, Mathias Dewatripont, and Scott Stern)

    Martin S. Eichenbaum and Lawrence J. Christiano, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Mathias Trabandt)
     

2016

2015


Enrico Moretti, recipient of the
2015 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award

François Gourio, recipient of the
2015 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award

Kenneth Hendricks, recipient of the
2015 AEJ: Microeconomics Best Paper Award
(Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman, not pictured)

Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko,
recipients of the
2015 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award

2014

  • Pascaline Dupas
  • AEJ: Applied Economics, 3 (1)
  • Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar
  • AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
  • Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels
  • AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (1)
  • Susan Athey, Dominic Coey, and Jonathan Levin
  • AEJ: Microeconomics, 5 (1)

2013

  • Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, Andrew Heisz
  • AEJ: Applied Economics, 4 (1)
  • Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, William Gui Woolston
  • AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (3)
  • Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
  • AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2 (2)
  • Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz
  • AEJ: Microeconomics, 2 (2)

2012

  • Petia Topalova
  • AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (4)
  • Raj Chetty
  • AEJ: Economic Policy, 1 (2)
  • Michael Woodford
  • AEJ: Macroeconomics, 3 (1)
  • Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
  • AEJ: Microeconomics, 3 (1)

2011

  • Hoyt Bleakley
  • AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (2)
  • Emmanuel Saez
  • AEJ: Economic Policy, 2 (3)
  • Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis
  • AEJ: Macroeconomics, 1 (2)
  • Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
  • AEJ: Microeconomics, 1 (2)